Similarities Between The Koran And The Bible

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In each religious story, there was a common thread. Humans were presented with two paths and had to decide whether they wanted to obey or disobey God or the god’s commands. In both the Koran and the Bible, we see Adam and Eve falling for the serpent and disobeying God. In the epic, we saw that Gilgamesh never obeyed the gods and so they punished him by killing his friend. In the myths we see similar tales of human disagreement or disobeyal of their gods. In each case, the punishment is mortality. Although this makes them very similar, their ideas on what happens after death are quite different. The Koran states, “...when God so pleases, we all will be revived in the totality of being and will be brought before Him for a full accounting of the

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